John Trapp on Job 13:9
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Job13:9
Verſe 9. Is it good thas he ſhould ſearch you out &c?] q. d. Could you have any joy of ſuch a ſearch? Will not all your warpings and partialities, your colloguing and ſiniſterity be laid open to your loſſe and ſhame? Will not God reprove in ſtead of approving you in that which ye have ſaid for him, but all againſt me? The time will come, when God will ſurely ſearch out all controverſies, that they all may be aſhamed who under a pretent of religion and right, have ſpoken falſe things, and ſubverted the faith of ſome. See 1 Cor. 3.17.
Or as one man mocketh another, will ye ſo mock him?] Be not deceived: God is not mocked, deluded, beguiled, as clients are by their corrupt lawyers: as patients are by their cogging quack-ſalvers. Sorry man may be mocked, and made to believe lies, as 2 Sam. 15.11. Acts 8.9, 10. and Rev. 13.3. all the world wondred after the Beaſt. Judges, and other wiſe men, are ſhamefully out other-whiles, deceiving, and being deceived: Not ſo the All-wiſe God. They that would mock him, imposturam faciunt & patiuntur, as the Emperour ſaid of him that ſold glaſſe for pearls; they deceive not God, but themſelves. Neither may they conceit that their good intentions will bear them out (as Merlin here noteth) any more then it did theſe contenders for God, who little thought of mocking him. A bad aim maketh a good action had, as we ſee in Jehu; but a good aim maketh not a bad action good, as we ſee in Ʋzzah, and here.
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